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Bike Like You Mean It (2002)
“Bike Like U Mean It, a documentary by Susan Kirr and Rusty Martin about Austin’s bike community, will screen at SXSW this year 2002. Many of Austin’s bike activists are featured in this film, so you will see a lot of familiar faces, and it is our attempt to portray the culture and the issues surrounding Austin’s bike scene: Critical Mass, Yellow Bike Project, Spinning Wheel Project, and Amy Babich’s letters to the Chronicle are all featured, to name a few.” (Description by the producers.) Order from the National Film Network.

More from the producers:

The new documentary, “Bike Like U Mean It,” by Rusty Martin and Susan Kirr, will have its world premiere at SXSW in March 2002. This film is a portrait of Austin’s commuter cyclists, those who ride their bikes as transportation, eschewing cars. Outspoken and iconoclastic, they actively promote not only alternative forms of transportation, but an alternative viewpoint toward cities, urban design, lifestyle, and culture. The film features:

Critical Mass, a monthly “coincidence” of bicyclists riding through downtown rush hour traffic

The Yellow Bike Project, a small collective of utopian idealists who are trying to put public bikes on the streets and also educate disadvantaged children about how to work on bikes

The Spinning Wheel Project, dedicated to biking, peace, and non-violence

Amy Babich and her years-long letter writing campaign to the Austin Chronicle

*Experts discussing alternative forms of energy, transportation, and urban design

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Return of the Scorcher (1992, 30 min.)
This half-hour documentary looks at bike culture and bike lifestyles around the world with beautiful and inspiring scenes of bike use filmed in China, The Netherlands, Denmark, and the U.S.

In the 1890’s, before automobiles ruled the roads, bicyclists were referred to as “Scorchers” because of their blazing speed. A century later, in a world filled with car-related environmental and social problems, Return of the Scorcher discovers an inspired and evolving bicycling renaissance.

This documentary touches on a surprising variety of subjects including romance, rebellion, early feminism, and spirituality—all viewed within the context of bicycling. Return of the Scorcher questions our obsession with “progress” and status and presents a diverse cross-section of cycling visionaries who see the bicycle as a life-affirming vehicle for change.

Return of the Scorcher features a scene which led to the adoption of the name “Critical Mass” for the rides which now occur around the world and also served as inspiration for Ted’s other movie We aren’t blocking traffic, We Are Traffic! Bicycle designer George Bliss coins the term “Critical Mass” in describing the flow of bicycle traffic with cars in China.

Suggested University/Classroom use: Environmental studies, Architectural/Urban Design Political Studies, Sociology, Art (public art, performance art, guerilla art).

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